Appropriately, Meltzer celebrated with a few beers while hiking up the last .9 miles of the trail on Springer Mountain, Ga., and officially ended his trail run at (heh-heh) 4:20 a.m. A member of his ground crew reports:

"Karl's a very happy man," said Billy. "He's so happy to be done. And I think he's really proud of himself for finishing this. He should be, man. To go on when the record was out of reach takes a man with some big balls and a big will. But he did it."

Congrats, Karl. We're damn near terrified to see what you'd do healthy.